Bookbinding



(No Model.)

J. R. WALES.

BOOKBINDING.

Patented June 7 S F. no 8 F. N H W TH: Nonms PETERS co. PHoTuLnHo., WASHINGTON, n c;v

Nrrnn STATES ArnN'r Prion.

BOOKBINDING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 605,364, dated June '7, 1898. .Application filed October 2, 1897. Serial No. 653,882; (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSHUA RUFUs WALES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Marlborough, in the county of Middlesex and State oi' Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bookbinding,

and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. f

My invention is an improvement in means for conneetin g the covers with the back proper of abook, and the same is hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a book having myimprovement partly applied, one cover being removed. Fig. 2 is a cross-section on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged cross-section of a book, showing my improvement as completely applied to both covers. Fig. 4 is a plan view of a portion of the back-binding.

The back-binding A consists of an oblong strip or piece of thin leather or suitable` fabric, whose side edges are slitted transversely to form the divideditongues 4 and 5. Y When the binding A is applied to the body of a book consisting of bound leaves 3, it is pasted lengthwise on the back thereof, asshown in Fig. l, and the tongues 4 are lapped and pasted upon .the outer side of the covers l and 2, as shown in Fig. 3, while the adjacent alternate tongues 5 are similarly lapped and pasted upon the iiy-leaves of the book beneath the covers l and 2, as shown in all the figures.

I show the tongues 4 as standing vertical in Fig. 1 for the sake of enabling the invention to be more clearly understood.

To render the binding still firmer and perfectly secure without materially aecting the liexibility of y the hinge connection of the covers l and 2, I applybands or tapes 7, as shown-that is to say, the same are applied between the Vback of leaves 3 and the piece 6 and passed through slits 8 in the back-binding, or, more strictly speaking, through slits in the portions 4 of the binding, which are lapped on the outside of the covers l and 2. The ends of such tapes 7 are shown free in Figsl and 2 and as glued down on the parts 4 in Fig.,4, and thus the binding is complete.

This'combination and arrangement of thetapes with the binding parts4 and 5 and the covers 1 2 secures the latter in the iirmest possible manner and forms a hinge of the most exible yet durable kind.

The combinatiomiwith the body of a book and the covers proper, of the back-binding, composed of the strip of fabric having transversely-separated portions or tongues, 4 and 5, which are secured on the covers and body, respectively, and the tapes 7, which are arranged within such binding, and passed through longitudinal slits in the tongues 4, and glued down on such tongues, as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSHUA RUFUS WALES.

Witnesses:

C. W. LnnoH, P. B. MURPHY.' 

